Is the election actually over? Last ditch effort underway to elect Hillary....

This caught me by surprise earlier when I saw it. I had no idea the election could still go to Hillary. Could this be the real conspiracy?

But there is a last, incredible long shot that could still get Hillary Clinton into the White House on Jan. 20 -- a twist in the Electoral
College. Clinton led the popular vote by more than 337,000 as of Thursday evening, according to Associated Press results compiled by Google. With
the addition of Arizona's late-called race, Trump had 290 Electoral College votes to Clinton’s 228. Only Michigan and New Hampshire remain
uncalled. Under the U.S. Constitution, electors will meet in their respective state capitals on Dec. 19. In all states but Maine and Nebraska --
which split their votes by statewide popular results and individual congressional district -- the candidate who wins the popular vote traditionally
gains all of that state's electoral votes.

It seems a petition for the delegates to vote for Hillary has reached 1.3 million signatures:

The number of electoral votes per state is determined by the number of congressional districts plus one for each senator, for a total of 538. But
there is nothing in the Constitution that prevents any of the electors from refusing to support the candidate who won their state, or from abstaining.
Twenty-nine states ban the "faithless elector" practice. A petition on Change.org is pushing for electors to vote for Clinton instead of Trump. It
had more than 175,000 signatures as of Thursday morning; by early evening, it had more than 1.3 million.

The article states it's rare for electors to defect or abstain, but not impossible.

So could this be the last chance for the current establishment to keep hold of the reigns? Could some kind of event between now and December 19th
cause the delegates in question to change their minds? I can definitely see upheaval from Trump supporters if something like this came to pass.
Thoughts?

A last, desperate grasp at victory from Liberals. Seriously, these petulant children have had their way for so long, they think whining is the
solution to everything and will continue to get them what they want. Treat them like the spoiled children they are.
If Republicans had done this, the MSM would have torn them apart, calling them bad sports, sore losers, and probably much worse. But, somehow, it's
fine for Liberals to bitch and whine when they don't get their way.
She Lost. Get used to it.

I am not happy with Trump, but I wouldn't have been happy with either. If she had actually cared about the nation she would have never ran in the
first place. I hate the games they play and inside decisions of who is next. That is why we get crappier choices each election.

The party needs to suck it up and fix themselves. They got beat fair and square, learn from it and better themselves.

Nobody on this site is more anti-Trump than me, it stings knowing that the person you voted for won the popular vote and lost the electoral college
— and this is twice in 16 years — but no, I could never support this.

Injecting uncertainty into the transfer of power would damage us as a nation, it would be bad for us as a people and the effects would ripple outward
from us.

He won by our system and he will take office. If we want to change the election process, that's a discussion for the future.

Nobody on this site is more anti-Trump than me, it stings knowing that the person you voted for won the popular vote and lost the electoral college
— and this is twice in 16 years — but no, I could never support this.

Injecting uncertainty into the transfer of power would damage us as a nation, it would be bad for us as a people and the effects would ripple outward
from us.

He won by our system and he will take office. If we want to change the election process, that's a discussion for the future.

I agree. I've already made peace with a Trump presidency. Which is why this was so strange when I saw it. Could the Clinton's intimidate their way to
the white house this way?

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